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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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